The essential guide for NCOs, this edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with the latest information on training, military justice, promotions, benefits, counseling, soldiers, physical fitness, regulations, and much more.
Taken from a family archive held at the Royal Armouries, Only Water Between tells the story of Captain Jack Adam and his family. Deployed to France in 1918, Jack leaves behind his beloved wife Gert and their three children. Separated by war, letters from home are a lifeline.
Highlights the diverse contributions of military psychologists towards our nation's security and towards the discipline of psychology itself. This work includes perspectives of psychologists and social scientists representing the uniformed services, research institutions, business, and academia.
In the late 1930s the RAF constructed a new airfield, near the village of Acklington, Northumberland, to train aircrews. With the outbreak of hostilities, it was hastily converted to a fighter station, deploying Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons against German bombers, and continued to host night fighters long after the Battle of Britain was won.
Based on the diaries of Royal Engineer Robert Jones, the narrative follows him across the North African desert, describes the bombing of Tripoli Harbour, the invasion of Sicily and the landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day + 2. The story follows the advance through Belgium and Holland, to the battle that became known as the Rhine Crossing.
This one guide contains the four military service's civilian education programs--how the system works, how to apply, how to take examinations for advanced credit, and how to get academic credit for military service.
Any scholar of history will have recognised the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Illustrated with well over 1000 photographs, this book presents a perspective on the feared organisation.
Stumbling Towards Victory contains photographs - many previously unpublished - from the final twelve months of the First World War. Published by the national museum of arms and armour, these images convey the horror, and hope, of that final cataclysmic year.
ISBN-13: 9780948092879
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
This excellent collection of selections from leading scholars on who the soldiers were, how they lived, and why they fought is a fine introduction to years of research that seeks to answer that question.
